Insufficient Memory when booting

stephane wrote:

Hi, I have a windows 98 computer and it's been working great for a while.
But for some reason, yesterday I got this message while booting
"Insufficient memory to initialize Windows". I did a quick search on google,
and found this article http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid4447 on the
microsoft web site. I tried adding that line to the system.ini file, but
with no result. Please help me, I don't wont to reformat this computer, I
hate it.

Thanks

PS Remove the nospam on my email if replying directly.

Try a defrag, it worked for me wfen I got the message.

So long and thanks for all the fish.

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stephane escribió:
| Hi, I have a windows 98 computer and it's been working great for a while.
| But for some reason, yesterday I got this message while booting
| "Insufficient memory to initialize Windows". I did a quick search on
google,
| and found this article http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid4447 on the
| microsoft web site. I tried adding that line to the system.ini file, but
| with no result. Please help me, I don't wont to reformat this computer, I
| hate it.


Hi stephane,

Mi ingles es muy malo, y como quieras que estas haciendo crossposting a
un grupo de habla hispana, te voy a responder en ese idioma, espero que
puedas entender lo que te escribo.

Este problema, surge siempre y cuando tengamos grandes cantidades de
memoria ram instalada en el sistema (por encima de 512 mb), ya que win98
tiene problemas para redireccionar memoria ram por encima de ciertas
cantidades, la solucion pasa por limitar la cantidad de memoria ram a la
que win98 puede tener acceso. En este articulo de la KB (en ingles) te
describen más o menos el proceso.

**/"Out of Memory" Error Messages with Large Amounts of RAM Installed
http://support.microsoft.com/defaul...US;q253912

**/Computer May Reboot Continuously with More Than 1.5 GB of RAM
http://support.microsoft.com/defaul...-US;304943

Formear el HDD no te va solucionar esta incidencia en particular. es una
limitación de win98...


Saludos
Fernando M. / Registered Linux User #367696